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My partner and co-blogger on this site, Suzie Cheel, with our good friend Glenda Watson Hyatt, the “Left Thumb Blogger”, have been working feverishly to get their Tweetathon going. It launched for us tonight at 7pm Australian eastern time and will keep “re-launching” around the globe in the coming hours.

The aim of the Tweetathon is to help Suzie get to Vancouver next week to become a certified Law of Attraction Facilitator, with Michael J. Losier, author of The Law of Attraction: the Science of Attracting More of What You Want and Less of What You Don’t. This is Suzie’s Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG). She is very committed to doing this course now and being then better able to help others.

She is a great helper of others, I can assure you!

Suzie and Glenda have plans too beyond that and have set up the Team World group on Ning, first to help with the Tweetathon and Suzie’s BHAG, then to gather and mobilize support for other causes.

And there are prizes for those who participate in the Tweetathon. One of the prizes is a copy of my 7 Step Business Blog, a basic introduction to blogging for the small business owner who has no pretensions to being a techie and no desire to become one. And in the spirit of the Tweetathon I’ve just decided (haven’t told Suzie or Glenda yet, a surprise!) I’ll add a half hour’s coaching on blogging strategy, one on one, on Skype, for anyone who wins a prize and chooses my book as their prize. That makes that particular prize worth a lot more: and if you win it and you are already an accomplished blogger I will be happy to provide the coaching for one of your clients, family members or friends who might like to add a blog to their business.

The procedure for anyone who wants to participate is simple.

Post about the Tweetathon on your blog and link to the post that explains it, Tweetathon and Team World Update and the post on Suzie’s Abundance Highway blog 3 Prizes to Win: Promote Suzie’s BHAG and the Tweetathon.
Leave a comment on the post 3 Prizes to Win: Promote Suzie’s BHAG and the Tweetathon, linking back to your post as in item 1 and saying what prize you would like if you are a winner.
Tweet the event, linking to your post on the subject in your tweet.

With regard to point 1 of the three foregoing points, there is a detailed explanation of the Tweetathon and the story behind it, in the post mentioned first in item 1 above and Suzie has given permission for anyone who wants to post on this topic to copy and paste that extended explanagion (with a link of course).

Be in it.

As far as I can work out, the term scrawled on a million whiteboards by corporate trainers, Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs), was coined – or at least first publicized – by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras in their now modern business classic, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.

Some readers will already know that my partner Suzie Cheel, who recently started contributing to this blog, launched the other week her own BHAG, to be in Vancouver, BC, Canada a few short weeks from now, to participate in the Michael J. Losier Law of Attraction Facilitator certification program.

The external reason it’s a BHAG is that Suzie has set herself a goal of putting together the $8,000 she needed to make that happen – $8,000 she did not have tucked away in a bottom drawer or an old sock, as she says in the interview I did with her last week – see the audio link below.

The coach in me says the more fundamental reason it’s a BHAG is an internal reason. The old inner game we all have to play if we decide to get serious about leaving the pack and chasing a vision. We need to deal with our emotions, our fears, the little voice on our shoulder that says “Are you serious?” “Who do you think you are?” etc, etc.

Not that it’s just inner game stuff. Suzie is taking action to turn her goal into a result.

As you can hear from the interview, she has a practical plan to raise the spondulicks. That includes putting up for sale just about the whole collection of hand-painted silk scarves and art quilts she has been hanging onto from her Suzie Cheel HandPainted Originals label. These are one-offs: we worked out long ago that Suzie’s creative process was such that even she could not reproduce an exact replica of any one of her works. Pictures and purchase details will be appearing progressively from tomorrow, on the new blog site: Suzie Cheel – Art & Beyond.

We’ve also decide to send to good homes for a fair price a bunch of domain names we own, including such names as thehomebusinessguy.com. We will be publishing that list here, today or tomorrow.

The Interview: Attracting Vancouver – Des Walsh interviews Suzie Cheel on her BHAG

MP3 File

Suzie’s aim is to put the finances together quickly. She is not giving her wonderful scarves and quilts, or the domain names, away for free. But is it good deal time coming up!